Herman van Midden


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Implementing, loading and optimizing a Type 2 Slowly Changing Fact Table

This article shows how to implement a Slowly Changing Facts Table, how to overcome the problems encountered when using the MERGE statement to process the data and suggest a minimal set of indexes to aid data loading and quering.

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2013-08-19

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